Psoriasis From Head to Toe: Tackling Scalp and Body Psoriasis With Topical Treatment

Panelists discuss how topical therapies remain essential in psoriasis management across all severities, highlighting the need for simplified, steroid-sparing treatment options that are safe, effective, and easy to use—especially to improve adherence and address patient concerns about adverse effects and complexity.

Panelists discuss how treating scalp psoriasis remains challenging due to poor compatibility of traditional topicals with hair and scalp characteristics, emphasizing the need for cosmetically acceptable, well-tolerated formulations that improve adherence and reduce premature escalation to systemic therapy.

Panelists discuss how diagnosing and treating psoriasis in patients with skin of color requires awareness of atypical presentations, hair and cultural considerations, and systemic treatment disparities, highlighting the value of safe, broadly effective, and cosmetically acceptable topicals to support earlier and more equitable care.

Panelists discuss how an ideal topical for widespread psoriasis—including scalp and sensitive areas—would be a single, nonsteroidal, well-tolerated agent with steroidlike efficacy, capable of supporting both proactive flare prevention and rapid itch relief while improving adherence, quality of life, and long-term disease control.